A prayer for victims

Kazuhiro Nogi / Agence France-Presse

Fifty-eight-year-old Hiroko Oyama, right, and her granddaughter play with bubbles as they pray for victims from the Okawa elementary school as part of the March 11,2011, disaster's first anniversary in Ishinomaki, Japan.

Fifty-eight-year-old Hiroko Oyama, right, and her granddaughter play with bubbles as they pray for victims from the Okawa elementary school as part of the March 11,2011, disaster's first anniversary in Ishinomaki, Japan. (Kazuhiro Nogi / Agence France-Presse)

Fifty-eight-year-old Hiroko Oyama, right, and her granddaughter play with bubbles as they pray for victims from the Okawa elementary school as part of the March 11,2011, disaster's first anniversary in Ishinomaki, Japan.